Project Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Project Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Project Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 21 16
Rank change year-on-year -7 -5 +13
Contract jobs requiring a Project Manager 1,164 1,855 2,928
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.66% 7.76% 9.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.12% 8.24% 9.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 812 1,382 2,269
10th Percentile £350 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £585 £575 £539
90th Percentile £638 £637 £613
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 60 32
10th Percentile £18.32 £25.73 £19.81
25th Percentile £26.06 £39.04 £25.63
Median hourly rate £35.50 £62.50 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -43.20% +90.84% +16.49%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.19 £47.81
90th Percentile £64.70 £65.75 £69.50
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £63.25 £51.25
% change year-on-year -42.42% +23.41% +73.73%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,029 22,515 29,590
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.22% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,619 15,794 20,727
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,245 1,162 1,474
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.75 £17.81 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Project Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Project Manager in the UK excluding London

Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Project Manager in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Project Manager in the UK excluding London

Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Manager in the UK excluding London

Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Project Manager in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Project Manager in the UK excluding London

Project Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Manager in the UK excluding London

Project Manager
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Project Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East -9 311 £525 +2.44% 221
North of England -13 246 £500 - 188
Midlands 0 178 £520 +9.37% 146
South West -2 177 £500 -4.76% 97
North West -7 149 £500 - 111
West Midlands -3 132 £525 +10.53% 88
Scotland -7 116 £475 -2.56% 60
East of England -13 90 £450 -10.00% 87
Yorkshire -20 80 £475 -13.64% 65
East Midlands 0 44 £481 +6.94% 56
Wales +14 37 £515 +21.18% 21
North East +15 10 £525 +31.25% 17
Northern Ireland -6 8 £435 -3.33% 4
Channel Islands +1 2 £575 -
Project Manager
UK

Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Project Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Project Manager in the job title.

1 592 (50.86%) Project Management
2 359 (30.84%) Social Skills
3 320 (27.49%) Agile
4 314 (26.98%) Finance
5 286 (24.57%) Stakeholder Management
6 212 (18.21%) Project Delivery
7 202 (17.35%) PRINCE2
8 161 (13.83%) Security Cleared
8 161 (13.83%) Public Sector
9 128 (11.00%) Degree
10 120 (10.31%) Migration
11 117 (10.05%) Problem-Solving
12 113 (9.71%) Risk Management
13 110 (9.45%) Change Management
14 98 (8.42%) Microsoft
15 97 (8.33%) SAP
16 94 (8.08%) SC Cleared
17 90 (7.73%) Waterfall
18 84 (7.22%) ERP
19 79 (6.79%) Business Case
20 73 (6.27%) Scrum
20 73 (6.27%) Azure
20 73 (6.27%) Project Planning
21 72 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
21 72 (6.19%) Budget Management
22 69 (5.93%) Decision-Making
22 69 (5.93%) Manufacturing
22 69 (5.93%) Programme Management
23 66 (5.67%) PMP
23 66 (5.67%) PMI Certification

Project Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 18 (1.55%) Confluence
1 18 (1.55%) SharePoint
2 10 (0.86%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (0.17%) CMS
3 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.086%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.086%) ColdFusion
4 1 (0.086%) Moodle
4 1 (0.086%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 52 (4.47%) Microsoft Office
2 37 (3.18%) Microsoft Project
3 19 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.43%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.26%) AutoCAD
6 3 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.17%) Maya
Business Applications
1 25 (2.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.69%) SAP Hybris
3 6 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.43%) iTrent
5 4 (0.34%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.34%) Magento
5 4 (0.34%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.26%) Maximo
6 3 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.26%) SAP CRM
6 3 (0.26%) SAP SD
7 2 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
8 1 (0.086%) CA PPM
8 1 (0.086%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.086%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.086%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
8 1 (0.086%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.086%) Sage 50
8 1 (0.086%) SAP Business ByDesign
8 1 (0.086%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 73 (6.27%) Azure
2 26 (2.23%) SaaS
3 25 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
4 18 (1.55%) Power Platform
5 16 (1.37%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (1.12%) GitHub
7 12 (1.03%) AWS
8 11 (0.95%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (0.86%) Smartsheet
10 9 (0.77%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 9 (0.77%) WhatsApp
11 8 (0.69%) SuccessFactors
12 5 (0.43%) Akamai
12 5 (0.43%) Cloudflare
12 5 (0.43%) Entra ID
13 4 (0.34%) OCI
14 2 (0.17%) Azure Sentinel
14 2 (0.17%) Miro
14 2 (0.17%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 22 (1.89%) Network Security
2 19 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
3 16 (1.37%) Structured Cabling
4 13 (1.12%) WAN
5 11 (0.95%) LAN
6 6 (0.52%) 5G
6 6 (0.52%) Firewall
6 6 (0.52%) Internet
6 6 (0.52%) Wireless
7 4 (0.34%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.34%) VPN
8 3 (0.26%) 4G
8 3 (0.26%) VoIP
9 2 (0.17%) CTI
9 2 (0.17%) Intranet
9 2 (0.17%) MPLS
9 2 (0.17%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.086%) DMZ
10 1 (0.086%) RTP
10 1 (0.086%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (1.55%) Power BI
2 17 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (1.12%) Electronic Patient Records
4 10 (0.86%) MySQL
5 6 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
6 5 (0.43%) Data Lake
7 4 (0.34%) Tableau
8 3 (0.26%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.17%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (0.17%) GIS
9 2 (0.17%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.086%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.086%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.086%) DB2
10 1 (0.086%) IDMS
10 1 (0.086%) Metadata
10 1 (0.086%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.086%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (0.086%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 66 (5.67%) JIRA
2 2 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.086%) Git
3 1 (0.086%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.086%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.086%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 359 (30.84%) Social Skills
2 314 (26.98%) Finance
3 161 (13.83%) Public Sector
4 72 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
5 69 (5.93%) Manufacturing
6 50 (4.30%) Telecoms
7 44 (3.78%) Influencing Skills
8 43 (3.69%) Retail
9 38 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
10 34 (2.92%) Organisational Skills
11 28 (2.41%) Pharmaceutical
12 27 (2.32%) Banking
13 26 (2.23%) Legal
14 24 (2.06%) Electronics
15 22 (1.89%) Local Government
16 21 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 20 (1.72%) Marketing
18 16 (1.37%) Aerospace
18 16 (1.37%) Military
19 13 (1.12%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (0.43%) .NET
2 3 (0.26%) Middleware
2 3 (0.26%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (0.17%) SAP PI
3 2 (0.17%) Smart Contracts
4 1 (0.086%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.086%) WF
4 1 (0.086%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 37 (3.18%) Management Information System
2 30 (2.58%) NHS
3 27 (2.32%) Data Centre
4 22 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
4 22 (1.89%) Onboarding
5 20 (1.72%) PMI
6 14 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (1.03%) Life Science
8 12 (1.03%) Virtual Team
9 10 (0.86%) Product Ownership
10 9 (0.77%) Security Operations Centre
11 8 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (0.69%) Cyber Defence
11 8 (0.69%) LIMS
12 7 (0.60%) Renewable Energy
13 6 (0.52%) Greenfield Project
14 5 (0.43%) Driving Licence
14 5 (0.43%) Hybrid Cloud
14 5 (0.43%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 29 (2.49%) Windows
2 11 (0.95%) Windows 10
3 6 (0.52%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.26%) Linux
4 3 (0.26%) Unix
5 1 (0.086%) AIX
5 1 (0.086%) Android
5 1 (0.086%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.086%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.086%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.086%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 592 (50.86%) Project Management
2 320 (27.49%) Agile
3 286 (24.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 212 (18.21%) Project Delivery
5 202 (17.35%) PRINCE2
6 120 (10.31%) Migration
7 117 (10.05%) Problem-Solving
8 113 (9.71%) Risk Management
9 110 (9.45%) Change Management
10 90 (7.73%) Waterfall
11 84 (7.22%) ERP
12 79 (6.79%) Business Case
13 73 (6.27%) Project Planning
13 73 (6.27%) Scrum
14 72 (6.19%) Budget Management
15 69 (5.93%) Decision-Making
15 69 (5.93%) Programme Management
16 64 (5.50%) Project Governance
17 56 (4.81%) Cybersecurity
18 49 (4.21%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 18 (1.55%) SQL
2 11 (0.95%) PHP
3 9 (0.77%) PL/SQL
4 6 (0.52%) Java
4 6 (0.52%) Python
5 3 (0.26%) Perl
6 1 (0.086%) C
6 1 (0.086%) COBOL
6 1 (0.086%) R
Qualifications
1 161 (13.83%) Security Cleared
2 128 (11.00%) Degree
3 94 (8.08%) SC Cleared
4 66 (5.67%) PMI Certification
4 66 (5.67%) PMP
5 65 (5.58%) DV Cleared
6 42 (3.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 37 (3.18%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 15 (1.29%) CISM
8 15 (1.29%) CISSP
9 12 (1.03%) APMP
9 12 (1.03%) Master's Degree
10 11 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (0.95%) HNC
11 8 (0.69%) DBS Check
11 8 (0.69%) HND
12 7 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (0.34%) CISA
13 4 (0.34%) MBA
13 4 (0.34%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (3.69%) PMO
2 35 (3.01%) QA
3 10 (0.86%) Disclosure Scotland
4 9 (0.77%) NIST
5 8 (0.69%) GDPR
5 8 (0.69%) HL7
5 8 (0.69%) NIST 800
6 7 (0.60%) SLA
7 5 (0.43%) ISO 9001
7 5 (0.43%) NEBOSH
7 5 (0.43%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.34%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.34%) PMBOK
9 3 (0.26%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.26%) GAMP
9 3 (0.26%) GxP
10 2 (0.17%) COBIT
10 2 (0.17%) GMP
11 1 (0.086%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.086%) RMADS
System Software
1 9 (0.77%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.086%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (0.95%) Argo
2 4 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.17%) Terraform
4 1 (0.086%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.086%) SafeCom
Vendors
1 98 (8.42%) Microsoft
2 97 (8.33%) SAP
3 23 (1.98%) Atlassian
4 19 (1.63%) Oracle
5 15 (1.29%) Sage
6 11 (0.95%) Ariba
7 10 (0.86%) Adobe
8 9 (0.77%) Avaloq
8 9 (0.77%) Salesforce
9 6 (0.52%) Cisco
9 6 (0.52%) Citrix
10 5 (0.43%) BT
10 5 (0.43%) F5
11 4 (0.34%) NEC
11 4 (0.34%) Workday
12 3 (0.26%) CheckPoint
12 3 (0.26%) Guidewire
12 3 (0.26%) MuleSoft
12 3 (0.26%) Progress
12 3 (0.26%) Siemens